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  • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
    UK business & economy
    Covid fraudsters and embezzlers given ‘open goal’, say MPs

    Business department failed to identify risks of organised economic crime in support schemes

  • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
    Nigeria
    Nigeria’s top accountant arrested by anti-corruption agency

    Ahmed Idris in alleged $190mn ‘diversion of funds and money-laundering activities’

  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
    News in-depthBanca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA
    Monte dei Paschi battle rumbles on after verdicts quashed

    Thirteen executives acquitted of helping world’s oldest bank hide more than €2bn losses

  • Tuesday, 10 May, 2022
    Regulator to force UK banks to offer scam victims compensation

    Announcement comes alongside government commitment to ensuring access to cash

  • Thursday, 5 May, 2022
    Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
    Instagram must stop the scammers targeting Gen Z

    Cloned accounts con followers of genuine financial content creators out of thousands

  • Tuesday, 3 May, 2022
    Bounceback UK Covid loans used to fund Isis, court told

    Prosecutors claim former pub landlord sent money from government scheme to terrorist organisation

  • Friday, 29 April, 2022
    Personal Finance
    Scammers target travellers as holiday spending returns

    Fake caravan bookings show biggest increase but flight fraud costs victims most

  • Friday, 29 April, 2022
    News in-depthArchegos Capital Management
    Bill Hwang case puts prosecutors’ market manipulation claim to the test

    Experts say US government may struggle to show Archegos Capital chief intended to artificially boost share prices

  • Thursday, 28 April, 2022
    UK business & economy
    SFO outsources disclosure in G4S case after high-profile case failures

    Anti-graft agency appoints legal tech group Anexsys to help handle review of evidence to be shared with defence

  • Thursday, 28 April, 2022
    News in-depthArchegos Capital Management
    Why did Wall Street loan billions to alleged fraudster Bill Hwang?

    Federal indictment against Archegos founder shines light on risk controls at sophisticated trading desks

  • Thursday, 28 April, 2022
    FT Magazine
    On the hunt for oligarchs in the ‘wild west’ of corporate intelligence

    When the blow is finally delivered, it comes quick, polished and polite

  • Wednesday, 27 April, 2022
    Archegos Capital Management
    Archegos founder Bill Hwang arrested on US fraud charges

    Prosecutors accuse hedge fund manager and former lieutenant of scheme that was ‘historic in scope’

  • Wednesday, 27 April, 2022
    Coronavirus economic impact
    UK launches fraud squad to hunt down lost Covid billions

    Treasury to spend £25mn on new task force of data experts and investigators to be set up by summer

  • Wednesday, 27 April, 2022
    FT CollectionsGreensill Capital
    UK fraud agency intensifies probe into Sanjeev Gupta’s GFG Alliance

    SFO request documents and interview staff as part of continuing criminal investigation

  • Tuesday, 26 April, 2022
    UK business & economy
    UK banks need pushing to recover Covid business loans, say MPs

    Report accuses BEIS of being ‘complacent in preventing fraud’ over bounce back scheme

  • Friday, 22 April, 2022
    Personal Finance
    A quarter of young people trust scam messages

    Fraudsters target UK shoppers on average twice a week, research finds

  • Thursday, 21 April, 2022
    Wirecard AG
    Wirecard middleman pleads guilty to hacking

    Hedge funds, researchers and journalists among targets of personalised phishing mails

  • Friday, 15 April, 2022
    Personal Finance
    Young Instagram users in UK face surge in impersonation scams

    Research reveals fraudsters’ adaptability across platforms

  • Thursday, 7 April, 2022
    News in-depth
    Scale of Covid loan fraud leaves UK struggling to reclaim billions lost

    While prosecutors focus on organised criminals, many of the fraudsters are minnows who vastly inflated their revenue

  • Monday, 4 April, 2022
    Former German tax inspector charged with €279mn tax fraud

    Trial of Hanno Berger is part of the so-called ‘cum-ex’ scandal that has rocked the German establishment

  • Wednesday, 23 March, 2022
    Credit Suisse Group AG
    Credit Suisse loses case over banker who stole from billionaire clients

    Bank could be forced to pay more than $500mn in lawsuit brought by Georgia’s ex-prime minister

  • Wednesday, 23 March, 2022
    FT InvestigationsInside Wirecard
    Wirecard: the case against Markus Braun

    The former chief executive of the German payments company that went bust with debts of €3bn faces fraud charges

  • Tuesday, 22 March, 2022
    FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign
    Young people scammed on Instagram highlight UK surge in online crime

    Efforts to tackle steep rise in fraud are stymied by under-resourced and outdated strategies

  • Tuesday, 15 March, 2022
    News in-depth1Malaysia Development Bhd
    Tim Leissner’s testimony in 1MDB trial shines light on vast fraud

    Case against former Goldman banker Roger Ng hangs on evidence from colleague turned foe

  • Monday, 14 March, 2022
    FT InvestigationsInside Wirecard
    Former Wirecard chief executive charged with fraud

    Munich public prosecutors charge Markus Braun over the collapse of the payments group

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